Renanse/Ardor3D — pull request #27 by neothemachine (2013-02-21 16:25:02+00:00)
Title: Normalize line endings

Hold your breath -- another biggie...

First, please read those articles:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/YoureJustAnotherCarriageReturnLineFeedInTheWall.aspx
https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings

I let git normalize all line endings in text files so that there won't be problems in the future. I know that Eclipse handles this quite well anyway, but e.g. for its own project .prefs files it fails.

At the moment there is a mix between Unix/Windows line endings in the Ardor3D git repo. Depending on your global Eclipse setting for line endings, Eclipse changes those for the .prefs files when you import Ardor3D, and then it wants to commit those as they "changed".

I don't like that one has to think about this at all and do such normalization commit, but I think in the long run it's better. And maybe in 10 years the world settled on LF and the issue is gone...